I dont know that the world sucks THAT much. I mean, i'm an 18 year old with
a hippybus. I can afford it. Heck, i work all day to keep it alive and plan
on making it the best i can at some point, but most certainly own it. It's
my baby. So ya, theres still hope for the world. (in my mind).

-Craig
'1985 Hippy Bus

On 8/2/07, Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
>
> Used vanagon parts prices aren't going to go through the roof especially.
> Sure, a few will charge over the top prices...
> And occasionally there is the highly desired rare part that's in high
> demand...
> But mostly you find good deals easily enough.
> I try to keep my used part prices very fair.
> Supply and demand anyway....if some yard wants 250 for a window, there are
> likely to get a lot on non-takers at that price level, and lost future
> sales
> from people not bothering to even check with them, based on that
> experience.
>
> Scott
> www.turbovans.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> John C...
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 5:43 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: What's the world coming to, when a 20 yr old kid cant afford a VW
> Hippy Bus ???!!!???
>
> Hi All,
> When you consider a southern Californian Co can sell a bus for $87,000.00,
> (did I get enough zeros in there)?
> $250 for a window, just isn't that bad...
> Look for parts prices to skyrocket, folks !!!
> 6 years ago I mentioned on the list
> about gas prices here in the US matching Europes'...
> best,
> JC...
>
> A few things... did you tell them what they go for?  I
> find the guys at Malahat good to deal with and if they are out of line on
> the prices they usually try to compete.  If you think they are
> expensive, call Tom Cat in Victoria...  If you are not happy with the
> pricing DON'T BUY  Is it a rip off?  I don't think so.  If
> the seller and the buyer feel everything is good and square then it is a
> fair deal.   It's not like they did anything bad to you other
> than quote a high price, they didn't promise you one thing and gave you
> another or some other "bad deal".  I don't see a rip off
> here, only a high price that you didn't want to pay.
>